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n - •Tom CrossTo AP'sLittle All-State Second FiveFirst Team Averaged 121 Points A Same During SeasonOierPiPIGIrBy MCK HOENIG .HARRISBURG The highest scoring combine In the history of the selections—averaging1.121 points s game and totaling over 3,000 for the year—-was chosen today as the 1954 Associated Press Little All-state basketball team.Pacing the point-happy pack Is Phil Harding, pride of tiny Laurel Hill in Susquehanna, Pa., who ran up the best schoolboy scoring statistics of the 1953-54 year inPennsylvania,Leading vote getter for the small school dream five was Don Hennon of Wampum, the only sophomore ever to make the first team in the five-year history of the selections. A junior1 now, he's the only holdover from the 1953 quintet.Bob Mantz of Mount Penn Jay Metzler of Mount Joy, and Chuck Hursh of Irwin are tire other first stringers on the Little A Instate squad chosen for the AP by 100 coaches, sportswriters and sports-All Pennsylvania players at schools registered for Class B or C basketball (under 500 enrollment) were eligible for the balloting and 175 received votes. Points were tabulated on a basis of 19 for first choice, 9 for second choice,, etc.Foij the first time the Littl® Allstate/includes two junior starters—aj£kAKKnlt;ClmcieiSiR.s:iishiPcVHenrion and Metzler. Every preceding team has had only one nonsenior.In' the voting Mantz trailed riennori, 108-104. Metzler was third. The next four players were bunched within four votes, Jerry Price of Ridley Park and Tom Cross of Waynesboro topping the second team.Others named to the second team are: Bob Dreisbach, Pine Grove; Bruce May, Hyndman; and Colin Norberg, Irwin.Picked for the third team are: Vince Fioravanti, Prospect. Park; John Jones, West Middlesex; Steve Sokolosky, Ashley; Ed Mazaleski, Newton Ransom; and Jack Sauer, Avonworth.
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Waynesboro Record Herald
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Apr 09, 1954
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